Snake!!!!!

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:22 pm

Hope, there is a new drink at the pub called the Blue Chaser. Mustang & I concocted it. Yummy!

southern yankee · Post by **southern yankee** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:26 pm

Accountable;936606 wrote: Blue chasers are real; I googled them to be sure but I remember them. They move really fast and "run" with their head held high. Scarey looking. thanks, my mom said her brother would be laughing his head off. watching my mother run across the yard!!:wah: Her twin. they lived on a farm. Poor mom, like myself deathly afraid of them.

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:34 pm

qsducks;937178 wrote: Hope, there is a new drink at the pub called the Blue Chaser. Mustang & I concocted it. Yummy!

oh, i'll have to come over and try it! :-6

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:36 pm

jimbo;937214 wrote: a vicious circle :wah:

oops off topic carry on

:wah::wah::wah:

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:02 pm

We have a snake here that we call a racer snake, the longest one I have seen are over 5 feet and very slim , They really move VERY fast and seem very shy, one time my son and I were cleaning up a pile of old tin and 2 racers came out from under a peice and ran right under my sons feet,he was jumping up and down and yelling as he would 'land his foot was right on top of one of the snakes it struck at him with it's mouth open as I seen it going for his leg I jerked him away and the snake missed and then raced away so quick I almost did'nt see it go. My son and I both was a bit shaken up for awhile and yes we knew to pick anything like a peice of tin up by the edge farthest from yourself so anything under it should run or crawl away from you but these 2 snakes did'nt go away they came back toward him.

southern yankee · Post by **southern yankee** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:04 pm

is that a old wise tail. or are snakes BLIND certain times of the year??

scholle-kid · Post by **scholle-kid** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:38 pm

When a snake sheds it's skin it is blind, and will strike at anything , they have even been known to strike themselves . My grandfather seen one stike it's self while the skin had just started peeling back from it's head.

IMO rattlesnakes seem more agressive around the time they are shedding their skins . It's pretty weird to come across a whole skin laying in the trail because until you look twice it looks like a snake, and if theres one laying on a rock and a breeze moves it ,it can sound very faintly like a snake rattle,

A bullsnake looks alot like a diamond back rattler and when corned and pissed off will sound like a rattler even thuogh it doesn't have the rattlers on it's tail ,some how it uses it's mouth to make the noise

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:55 pm

thats when the old timers aroung here say the black snakes will chase you, it's when they are supposed to be blind, but they never explained that it was shedding that made them blind! thats very interesting!

southern yankee · Post by **southern yankee** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:17 am

i know years ago when i worked in daycare. we had a snake problem:( my director put out moth balls, on the other side of the fence. it seemed to work. my sister in-law keeps them around and in her camp. kind of smelly:wah: i guess the snakes think so too;)

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:23 am

southern yankee;940256 wrote: i know years ago when i worked in daycare. we had a snake problem:( my director put out moth balls, on the other side of the fence. it seemed to work. my sister in-law keeps them around and in her camp. kind of smelly:wah: i guess the snakes think so too;)

yeah my mother-in-law keeps moth balls everywhere thinking it will keep away snakes! i never knew if it wiuld work or not!

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Fri May 01, 2009 7:38 am

Hope6;921503 wrote: OMG!!!:eek::eek:

This story creeped me out so much!!!

Maine Woman Finds 8-Foot Python in Washing Machine

GORHAM, Maine — A woman got the shock of her life when she found an 8-foot snake mixed in with clothes in her washing machine. The snake, identified as a reticulated python, somehow got into the water pipes of Mara Ranger's 1800s-era farmhouse and slithered into the machine.

After Ranger took her blue jeans out of the machine Wednesday, she reached back into the load and felt something move.

"I jumped back and all of sudden its head starts coming out of the washing machine and it looked huge," Ranger told WMTW-TV.

Ranger quickly closed the lid and called police and an animal control officer, but they didn't want anything to do with the serpent.

When Richard Burton, who operates Maine Animal Damage Control in Lewiston, arrived at Ranger's house, he could barely believe his eyes.

Burton reached into the machine wearing a pair of welding gloves, expecting to come out with a 4-foot snake. But when he pulled the animal out, it kept coming and coming — all 8 feet of it.

Once out of the machine, the angry snake wrapped itself around Burton's hand, cutting off the blood flow. Burton then wrestled the scaly reptile into a plastic bag, tied it shut and brought it to Lewiston.

That's where Jen Lewis, a wildlife rehabilitator who works at the Kennel Shop, identified it as a python. The snakes kill prey with their teeth but are not poisonous, she said.

Lewis and Lewiston's animal control officer planned to find the snake a home at a wildlife refuge.

But how the snake ended up in the washing machine remains a mystery. Burton guessed it was somebody's pet and that the owner ended up tossing it out into the wild when it got too big. It then made its way through the water pipes and into the washing machine, probably after the load was done, he said.

In the meantime, Ranger said she's a little paranoid.

"Now that it's gone, I'm going to be checking crevasses and corners," Ranger said. "I'm going to be looking in the tub first — before and after, maybe even during, the rinse cycle."

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I just had to bump this.:sneaky:

Hope6;940783 wrote: yeah my mother-in-law keeps moth balls everywhere thinking it will keep away snakes! i never knew if it wiuld work or not!

I'm not totally evil. I quoted this too. I'm wondering if it does work.